...daringly for a week or two longer, and sighting no more ships, she turned her prow southward again.
Her depredations were at an end, for early in August, she spoke the English bark Barricouta, from San Francisco to Liverpool, and from her received conclusive evidence of the end of the war between the States.
Commander Waddell could not persuade himself to enter an American port, and for some time aimlessly...